To All:
It's obvious we will be just waiting for news from here on out so I did a little surfing and came across this little tidbit concerning John Daly. It came from golf.com and the author's name is Thomas Bonk:
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As he heads into 1998, his eighth year on the tour, Daly is lighter
(his weight is down to 190), happier (he's sober) and optimistic ("I'm hitting the ball real good.")These are all considered good signs for Daly, 32, who has reinvented himself so often, he should be wearing a lab coat. It has been six years since Daly won the PGA at Crooked Stick when he showed up in a smoking jalopy, two years since he won the British Open at St. Andrews, eight months since he checked into the Betty Ford Clinic and seven months since his wife filed for divorce. Since then, Daly withdrew from the U.S. Open, missed the cut in four of his last six tournaments, lost his endorsement deals for golf clothing and clubs and signed on with Callaway.
So what kind of year has 1997 been? A year of change, he said. "Yeah, there've been a lot of changes . . . wife, clubs, clothes. But I'm getting back my rhythm. I just want to get back to what I did in
1991. The more I played, the more rhythm I got, the better I played." Daly said he will play 25 to 30 tournaments in 1998, at least five of them on the West Coast: the Bob Hope, Tucson, Phoenix, the Nissan Los Angeles Open and the Buick Invitational at La Jolla.
What we should expect from him on the course is not yet known,
but there have been hints. Daly, playing with Fuzzy Zoeller in this
weekend's Shark Shootout, put up a 60 in a pro-am last week at Ojai.
Off the course, Daly is trying to keep himself on the fairway and out of the rough. He attends regular Alcoholics Anonymous meetings,
travels from event to event in his motor home and keeps his life
together.
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Sounds as if maybe he's pulling himself out of the sand trap he fell into? Just a thought to pass the time..............................
Theo |
